HAMR Hard Disk Drives Postponed To 2018 (anandtech.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 28, 2015 @04:27AM from the losing-a-battle-in-the-capacity-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Unfortunately the hard disk drive industry is not ready to go live with Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). The technology is yet not reliable enough for mass production. Over the years, producers of hard drives, platters and recording heads have revealed various possible timeframes for commercial availability of drives with HAMR technology. Their predictions were not accurate. The current goalpost is set to year 2018. While solid state disks based on Flash memory keep seeing rapid improvements as well, HDDs still kick butt in scenarios where high areal density is more important than ripping transfer speeds. The areal density of HAMR products is predicted to exceed 1.5 Tb per square inch.

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perfect for people who download porn by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-28 04:33 · Score: 2, Funny

thats a lot porn per square inch :P
HAMR Time! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-28 04:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh wait ... not yet
1. Re:HAMR Time! by Dragonslicer · 2015-12-28 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Seriously, just stop.
Not reliable enough? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · 2015-12-28 04:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Of course it's not reliable, who the hell thought that using a HAMR on hard drives was a good thing? That's what I use to destroy hard drives!